The Northrop B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed...
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Air Force intends the B-21 to replace the Rockwell B-1 Lancer and Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit by 2040, and possibly the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress after...
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development of the flying wing design, most successfully the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. Jack Northrop founded 3 companies using his name. The first was the Avion...
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perhaps as much as 130 ft (40 m). Northrop Grumman claims the wing is more scalable and adaptable than the B-2 Spirit's flying wing shape. Aviation Week...
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The Northrop Tacit Blue was a technology demonstrator aircraft created to demonstrate that a low-observable stealth surveillance aircraft with a...
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Aviation portal Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider Related development Northrop N-1 Northrop N-1M Northrop N-9M Northrop YB-35 Aircraft...
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Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider, currently expected to enter service in 2026–2027. In 1998, a Congressional panel studied the merits of re-starting B-2 Spirit...
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Horten H.IV soaring glider and good stealth characteristics as on the Northrop B-2 Spirit bomber. Disadvantages include a potential sensitivity to trim. Tailless...
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Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider Tupolev PAK DA Related lists List of bomber...
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original on 28 December 2023. Biesecker, Cal (27 July 2023). "Northrop Grumman Powers On B-21; Won't Bid On NGAD". Defense Daily. Archived from the original...
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The Northrop Grumman X-47B is a demonstration unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) designed for aircraft carrier-based operations. Developed by the American...
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its ATB/B-2 division had been working on stealth fighter designs. Sandusky would later be the Northrop ATF's Chief Engineer, while fellow B-2 stealth...
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Sukhoi Su-57 (category EngvarB from January 2023)
development Sukhoi Su-35S Sukhoi Su-47 Sukhoi/HAL FGFA Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik-B Sukhoi Su-75 Checkmate Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era...
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that can drop conventional and nuclear weapons; it will replace Northrop's own B-2 Spirit, the world's only known stealth bomber. Among its other projects...
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for a test drop of a Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb from a Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. The 44th Reconnaissance Squadron was established...
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continuously as the aircraft moves. This approach eventually led to the Northrop B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. In this case, the aerodynamic advantages of the flying...
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hold a scale model of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, which shared design features of his YB-35 and YB-49. The B-2, for example, has the same...
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The fighter concept is in the 40,000 lb (18,000 kg) weight class. The Northrop Grumman X-47B that was chosen for the UCAS-D program has also been proposed...
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Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Xian H-20 Related lists List of bomber aircraft...
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function as asymmetric air brakes, providing rudder control, much as in Northrop's flying wings. Removing the pilot and its associated facilities from the...
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Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Lockheed Have Blue Northrop Tacit Blue McDonnell Douglas X-36 Boeing Model 853-21 Quiet Bird "Boeing...
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comparable role, configuration, and era Baykar Bayraktar Kızılelma Hongdu GJ-11 Northrop Grumman X-47B Boeing Phantom Ray Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat, formerly "Loyal...
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systems. On 23 July 2020, the Air Force gave contracts to Kratos, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and General Atomics to compete for the Skyborg program, an effort...
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and low-observability are not necessarily mutually exclusive designs. Northrop Grumman's proposal for the U.S. Navy's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF)...
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role, configuration and era Baykar Bayraktar Kızılelma Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik-B Newdick, Thomas (28 December 2023). "Turkey's ANKA-3 Flying Wing Unmanned...
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development Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik-B Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era AVIC 601-S Boeing X-45 Northrop Grumman X-47B Boeing Phantom Ray...
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Stingray request for proposals in October 2017 to Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and General Atomics. Boeing secretly finished building its wing-body-tail...
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F-35 Lightning II Attack Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Bombers Northrop B-2 Spirit Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider UAVs General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger Boeing MQ-25...
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F-35 Lightning II Attack Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Bombers Northrop B-2 Spirit Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider UAVs General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger Boeing MQ-25...
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be accomplished through thrust-vectoring, possibly by modifying the extant 2-D vectoring nozzles of the F-22. These changes would in effect be combining...
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